Adjustable cuspidor.



No. 637,882. Paten ted NOV. 28, I899,

' J. C. MEADEB.

ADJUSTABLE CUSPIDOB. (Application fliedlpr. 10, 1899.)

(No Model.) 2 sheets-Sheet NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. MEADER, OF COLFAX, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE CUSPIDOR.

SPECIFIGA'I TON forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 637,882, dated November 28, 1899.

Application filed April 10, 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES C. MEADER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Colfax, in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Cuspidor, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a cuspidor specially adapted to be fixed to the floor of a railwaycar to prevent the annoyances incident to persons spitting on the door and fouling the cars with tobacco and other ofiensive matter.

My invention consists in the ouspidor constructed and adapted to be advantageously applied as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of the cover adapted to be fixed on top of a car-floor. Fig. 2 shows the cylindrical vessel journaled to a case fixed to a car-floor and under the cover fixed on top of the floor as required for practical use. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on a central line of Fig. 2 looking toward one of the ends of the cylindrical vessel. Fig. 4 is an end view of the case, showing how the two parts thereof and a plate fitted over the top are jointly connected by means of screw-bolts and nuts on the lower ends of the bolts.

The letter A designates a flat metal plate adapted to be fixed on top of a car-floor A or a portable box adapted for suspending and inclosing the rotatable vessel. It may vary in size and shape and has a central opening designed to coincide with a corresponding opening in a floor or other support under which the vessel is to be suspended. The plate also has openings at its ends for purposes hereinafter stated.

B represents the open-topped portion of a metal case adapted to be jointly fixed to the under side of a car-floor, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and as required to support the rotatable vessel immediately under the central opening of the fixed plate or cover A, fixed on top of the floor. The contracted lower end of the lower part B of the case is open for the discharge of matter that may be emptied from the rotatable vessel. The upper part B has integral enlargements B at its ends that extend vertically and have longitudinal bores that coincide with perforated cars at the top Serial No. 712,426. (No model.)

of lower part B and perforations in the plate A, that coincide with the bores in the enlargement B through which bolts are passed for fixing the parts B, Bi, and A jointly to the floor A by means of bolts and nuts on the bottom ends of the bolts, buthid from View by the journals and journal-bearings. (Shown in Fig. 2.)

D is an elongated cylindrical vessel that has journals h at its ends that rest in coinciding bearings formed on the overlying ends of the two parts of the case, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way. On the ends of the vessel D are continuous flanges ,D that pro ject up through the opening in the door A and the openings in the ends of the fixed plate A, as shown in Fig. 2, in such a manner that a person can by foot-pressure thereon rotate the cylinder as required to bring the opening in the vessel into coinciding position with the opening in the plate A, as required, to spit into the cuspidor.

In the practical use of my invention when the vessel contains expectorations of tobaccojuice and other filthy matter it will be carried in the vessel until the car is ina place where it may be emptied upon the ground along the track by simply placing a foot on one of the flanges D and thereby rotating the vessel a half-revolution to allow the matter to drop out of the vessel and through the opening in the bottom of the two-part case B and B Having thus described the construction, application, and operation of my invention, its utility is obvious, and what I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent therefor, is-+ 1. In a cuspidor for cars the plateA having a central opening and minor openings near the ends of the central openings and a plurality of bolt-holes, a two-part metal case composed of the upper part B and lower part B and the upper part having integral en= largements B provided with longitudinal bores and the lower part having integral ears provided with perforations coinciding with the said bores and the two parts of the case and the said plate jointly fixed to a car-floor by means of bolts and nuts to support a cylindrical vessel inclosed in a case as shown and described for the purposes stated.

2. A cuspidor comprising the plate A having a central opening and also an opening in each end to admit a flange on a rotatable vessel, a two-part case, B and 13", having integral enlargements B on the ends of its top part and longitudinal bores in said enlargements, perforated ears on its lower part and bearings for a rotatable vessel, a rotatable cylindrical vessel D having an opening to coincide with the central opening in the plate Mrs. J. H. PRALL, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

